The 2017 show Taken isn’t showing in our media library. We also have the 2002 original season Taken which does show and is a mini-series with 10 episodes. The seven current episodes of Taken (2017) are being indexed under Taken (2002) as duplicate files of that season’s first seven episodes. Our f…

Plex has gone ‘round the bend’ with this TV Show naming thing and it’s causing no shortage of pain and suffering all around. Try this - experience (and testing) dictates it will work: TV Shows ----Taken (2002) --------Season 1 ------------Taken (2002) s01e01.avi ------------Taken (2002) s01e02…

Please use the hyphens as separators Use 2-digit season numbers for the season folder name Taken (2017) Season 01 Taken (2017) - s01e01.mkv Taken (2017) - s01e02.mkv

I, of course, did in my test file and my old original ‘Taken’. I’m a 100% compliant kind of guy. If we find out those dashes are important there’s a couple of employees that are going to have to be taken to school, but yes, by all means go 100% compliant as Otto suggests: TV Shows ----Taken (2002…

Guys, thank you both for your help and suggestions. I’m afraid I’ve not got an opportunity to test these on this occasion, as my wife has implemented her own workaround, which went something like this: Go into Taken in Plex Select ‘Unmatch’ Then use ‘Fix match’ At this point, she could separate …

Well, that will work. I prefer to fiddle around with the names and then ■■■■■ about it. LOL

Just found this thread as I was looking for a solution to the same problem with The Twilight Zone. I have one library with the folders: The Twilight Zone The Twilight Zone (1985) The Twilight Zone (2002) The Twilight Zone (2002) was not showing up, though the other two folders show up and match p…

Two TV shows with same name (different years) - one not showing

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kerrasdair April 19, 2017, 5:49pm 7

So far so good with the new episode of Taken. If this happens again, I’ll try the Plex Dance®.

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